Yang Hongzhang was noncommittal about this achievement, Luo Kedi patted Xia Dongwei's shoulder and smiled: "General Xia, if you run this trip, Dashuai will be able to complete all the obstacles of all six runways here." ”

Xia Dongwei pouted: "You cow, you come." ”

"I'll come, I'll come, I'm sure I'm faster than you!" Roque's enemy is also eager to try.

With Xia Dongwei's lesson, Luo Kedi was extra careful when crossing the balance beam, and the speed was also very slow when he climbed over the net wall, but in the end, there were still problems when he was crawling forward, his physique was much taller than Xia Dongwei from the south, Xia Dongwei followed Yang Hongzhang and fought tunnel battles in Funiu Mountain and outside the capital, and the basic skills of bending forward were somewhat a little, and this Luo Kedi was basically defending against the epidemic in the Tianjin Acropolis. So almost every few steps forward, I can't help but look up, the joint just hits the pain, the more this breathes more urgently, and the frequency of raising the head.

In the end, when Roque came out with a blue nose and swollen face, the pocket watch had already reached 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Yang Hongzhang still didn't comment, Luo Kedi blushed and didn't say a word, and Xia Dongwei gloated on the side.

The two of them hit a wall in a row, and the other officers finally understood that their commander was not a joke, and the combination of seemingly simple obstacles required a high level of physical strength and reaction. The time of the two battalion officers is more than twice that of Yang Dashuai, and I don't know how much room for improvement there is. I don't know what Yang Dashuai's request is.

Seeing everyone's expectant eyes, Yang Hongzhang did not blame the two, but said with a smile: "Each battalion has three days for adaptive training, and after the training is completed, I will assess one battalion." The results of the assessment are the results of the selection. Yang Hongzhang said as he walked to the field of uneven bars, and then grabbed the horizontal bar with both hands and made a few demonstrations.

"Yang Sheng, start the three-minute timer, Zhang Hu, you count, my chin and shoulders are counted once every time they exceed the lever." Yang Hongzhang shouted at the two people who didn't know why, and the two hurriedly walked over and stared at Yang Hongzhang. Other officers also hurriedly ran over curiously to watch.

"One, two...... Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one......"

In the puzzled eyes of most of the officers, Yang Hongzhang rose and fell on the horizontal bar, pulled up and down one hundred and eighty in just three minutes, and then jumped down without blushing or panting, and looked at Xia Dongwei and Luo Kedi with a calm and relaxed look.

This time, Luo Kedi couldn't help it, he smiled and said: "Dashuai, this should be a test of arm strength, hehe, I'll come first, I'll come first." After speaking, without waiting for Yang Sheng to shout, he directly followed Yang Hongzhang's appearance and started pull-ups unilaterally. Luo Kedi's arm strength is indeed good, but his weight is heavier, and his speed at the beginning is also very fast, and his learning is almost the same as Yang Hongzhang's, but just after half a minute, his speed has slowed down significantly, and it is difficult to pull his body up by two minutes. Less than 60 were done in the last three minutes.

Xia Dongwei smiled and said, "Big man, don't think that your arms are thick, and your waist is also thick, haha." ”

"Can you, your needle-and-thread arm pull up? I look at all of them hanging! ”

"Hehe, I just broke my foot, and when my foot is better, I will definitely be able to surpass you." Xia Dongwei smiled slyly.

Luo Yidi pursed his lips when he heard the words and twisted his head elsewhere, this guy is so shameless, he doesn't want to know him, and everyone laughs when they see this. Yang Hongzhang said to Zhang Hu: "You go and try?" ”

Zhang Hu heard the words and walked under the horizontal bar, but a jump resulted in a hand not grasping steadily, and fell off the horizontal bar, which caused everyone to laugh, Zhang Hu was also red, and he was completely embarrassed in front of the handsome.

Yang Hongzhang also laughed with everyone, but he said: "It's okay, it's normal to drop the bar for the first time, continue!" ”

This time Zhang Hu used twelve points of strength and a hundred times more careful, only to see him jump and then grab the horizontal bar with both hands, his cheeks were red, Yang Hongzhang saw this and hurriedly said: "Take it easy, otherwise you won't be able to pull yourself up hard." Remember to cooperate with the whole body, especially the waist and arms, and the force should be even. ”

I have to say that Zhang Hu's physical fitness is good, and his understanding is also high, more than ten years of life in the rivers and lakes, so that he has no fat, the most important thing is that the long-term life immediately makes his waist strength stronger than others, with Yang Hongzhang's encouragement and Luo Kedi's experience, his speed is not very fast, basically two seconds one, and finally until the end of time, the speed up and down is almost the same as at the beginning, if it is not for the time to come, he should be able to hold on for a long time, Zhang Hu jumped off the horizontal bar, and the crowd burst into applause.

When the other officers saw that the marshal was like this to Zhang Hu, they also asked to give it a try, but unfortunately none of them could surpass Zhang Hu, and no one could be as blushing and out of breath as Yang Hongzhang.

In the next parallel bars demonstration, basically no one dared to try it, and Yang Hongzhang did not ask for it on the spot, but continued to do push-ups and sit-ups.

In the last project of the stride squatting and jumping field, Luo Kedi couldn't help but be the first to jump out, but he saw that Yang Hongzhang jumped very easily, and soon crossed the field of nearly 300 steps, Luo Kedi was full of confidence, but he squatted down and couldn't jump anymore before he walked a third of the way.

After almost all the officers knew about the results of the engineer battalion for a month, Yang Hongzhang immediately announced a training order, each battalion needed to complete the basic queue and phalanx training every day, and each person needed to add 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups, and this number would be increased to 200 after a month.

When they learned that most of the training equipment and venues in this camp were for the elites who were about to be selected, most of the people breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly sweated for those people.

And the next selection is indeed similar to everyone's options, that is, obstacle runs, pull-ups and sit-ups, push-ups and timed runs around the field, etc., each event has a score, and all the events add up to the top 500 people.

Because there are three days of adaptation, there are really masters in the folk, especially in the field obstacles, there are many people who break through three minutes, and even more than 100 people break through two minutes and thirty seconds, among which the fastest people are close to two, and I asked if these people are from Orion.

The rest of the people who stand out in pull-ups and push-ups or getting up on their backs are all young, strong rural babies. They either work in the fields all year round or work as porters in the city's large dock markets, and their past experiences have allowed them to surpass their peers in terms of physical fitness.

Five hundred of the chosen ones entered this special training camp with envious eyes, unbeknownst to them, of the inhuman torture that awaited them. And Yang Hongzhang is their chief instructor!

The 500 people were divided into five groups, and they took turns to carry out field obstacles, upper and lower body strength, whole body skills and weight training.

For the people of this era, as long as the food can keep up, they can endure the hard and tiring training, but most people can't even write their own names when they let them read and write, it's really fatal. However, the commander has an order, and they can only follow it, because the commander said that those who want to be assessed will be returned to the battalions directly if they fail the examination. Not to mention the treatment of the elite battalion, this self-esteem alone makes everyone riveted.

However, compared with reading, Yang Hongzhang's plan also includes letting them learn various local dialects and words, which may make these people kneel again. What they don't know is that Yang Hongzhang also plans to invite people from the troupe to teach them to sing big operas, and invite all kinds of personnel from the teaching department and even merchants to exercise their minds, which is a later story.

Because Yang Hongzhang is indeed training them in accordance with the training methods of special forces in the harmonious era, now he is just a general soldier, and he has no qualifications and no money to raise too many soldiers, so he can only take the elite route, and he thinks that in this era, if a team with good physical fitness and advanced flintlock pistols is trained, it can definitely be invincible in a small battle. At critical moments, it can turn the tide.

Of course, in the future, these people will be used more for gathering intelligence in peacetime, reconnaissance and surprise raids in wartime.

Almost everyone was shocked by the huge slogan of the training ground: "Lose your skin and flesh and don't fall behind, shed blood, sweat and tears!" This couplet was quickly adopted by all the barracks!

At present, in addition to the daily hard training and abundant food of the elite battalion, the most talked-about thing is to sing military songs, and it is said that this "Loyal to the Country" was written and composed by Yang Dashuai. Almost everyone feels their blood boiling after listening to it, so now whenever they have time, they will hear someone singing:

The wolf smoke rises and the rivers and mountains look north

The dragon rolls, the horse grows, and the sword qi is like frost

The heart is like the Yellow River

Twenty years between the vertical and horizontal who can resist

Hatred is the direction of the long knife

How many siblings are buried in their bones

What a pity to die to repay the family and country

Endure sighs, even more speechless, blood and tears in my eyes

The horseshoe goes south, and the people look north

People look north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying

I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory

Dignified China wants to give way to the Quartet

Come to congratulate

The wolf smoke rises and the rivers and mountains look north

The dragon rolls, the horse grows, and the sword qi is like frost

……

Of course, Yang Hongzhang is plagiarized, and he will not give copyright fees. However, his improvisation in the elite battalion has achieved unexpected results, these simple northern men have been bullied by the Qing army all the year round, this song can be regarded as singing their hearts, I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and China will let the Quartet congratulate!

Soon, the battalion officers of other battalions came to Yang Hongzhang, and Yang Hongzhang also pushed the boat down the river and decided to promote this song in the whole army to boost morale, and it can be regarded as adding some entertainment to the boring training.

The best interpretation of this song is naturally the cavalry battalion, Xia Dongwei has had many experiences with the Qing army in short-handed combat, and most of his subordinates are the same, and they have a deeper understanding of the two sentences of horse neighing and sword qi like frost.

So much so that each battalion will have a chorus before and after the training of each project. Soon this song spread in Tianjin Acropolis and other urban areas of Tianjin Prefecture, and some scholars and even prostitutes in Qinglou learned to sing or adapt this song, and for a time "Jing Zhong Serving the Country" was also all the rage.